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TIL: The Pizza Effect - The phenomenon of a nation's or people's culture being transformed elsewhere, then re-exported to their culture of origin

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l7oMB TIL Dinasours have lived in another part of the galaxy. Although this news is quite old, I learned today that dinosaurs wouldn't have even seen the stars that we see today in the sky because they didn't exist until millions of years after the extinction event.
VM488 TIL that in 2018, Judge Judy made $147 million, and she films her show 52 days a year. Thus, in 2018 she made ~$2.8 million a day when working.
Xb48 TIL of the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge - a professional high diver who wanted to ‘demonstrate that people did not die by simply falling through the air’. He proved himself correct after falling, safely, 135 feet through the air; dying from impact upon hitting the water.
ADAEa TIL a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers in 2008. While other employees attempted to help him, the shoppers were unconcerned with the victim's fate and refused to halt their stampede, complaining that they were not willing to wait in the cold any longer.
AVxg TIL Mark David Chapman planned to kill David Bowie and had a front row seat (along with John & Yoko) for Bowie’s Broadway show the day after killing John